On path loss of NLOS underwater wireless optical communication links

Author

Shijian Tang ; Yuhan Dong ; Xuedan Zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2013

fDate

10-14 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In practical underwater wireless optical communications (UWOC), the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) link which utilizes the sea surface to reflect the beam has been presented recently but not fully studied yet. In this paper, we investigate the path loss of NLOS UWOC links based on the Monte Carlo simulations taking the effects of both random sea surface slopes and scattering properties of seawater into account. Numerical results suggest that the random surface slopes induced by the wind may strongly corrupt the received signal. This detrimental effect can be dismissed by scattering light as the attenuation length increases where the multiple scattering light dominates in the received signal.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; marine communication; optical links; Monte Carlo simulation; NLOS underwater wireless optical communication link; UWOC; nonline-of-sight link; path loss; random sea surface slopes; random surface slopes; scattering light; scattering property; Nonlinear optics; Optical surface waves; Photonics; Scattering; Sea surface; Surface treatment; Wind speed; Underwater wireless optical communications; non-line-of-sight; path loss;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE

Conference_Location

Bergen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0000-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608002

Filename

6608002